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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

The Titanic will protect itself.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of...

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went...

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

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